David Almond /
Johnston, Rosemary Ross,editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Series Editor's Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Key to Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: David Almond and Mystical Realism; Rosemary Ross Johnston -- 1. Living Just Beyond the Wall: Versions of the Savage in David Almond's Novels; Perry Nodelman -- 2. Ontology, Epistemology, and Values: Philosophy and Cognitive Science in David Almond's Skellig and My Name is Mina; Roberta Seelinger Trites -- 3. The Possibilities of Becoming: Process-Relational Theology in the Works of David Almond; Karen Coats -- 4. 'A Sense Sublime': Religious Resonances in the Work of David Almond; Valerie Coghlan -- 5. Birdmen from the Depths of the Earth: Radical Landscape in the Fiction of David Almond; Nolan Dalrymple -- 6. 'They thought we had disappeared, and they were wrong': The Depiction of Working Class in Almond's Novels; Carole Dunbar -- 7. 'Melting and Opening Underfoot': Almond's Heaven Eyes as a Complex Variation; Perry Nodelman -- 8. The Transcendent in David Almond's Play Wild Girl, Wild Boy; Michael Levy -- 9. Of Writing: The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean: telt by hisself; Rosemary Ross Johnston -- Appendix: The David Almond Archive at Seven Stories, National Centre for Children's Books; Hannah Izod -- Further Reading -- Index.
Almond, David, 1951-
Young adult literature, English